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谪

zhé

Character Traditional 謫

What 谪 means

1. to relegate a high official to a minor post in an outlying region (punishment in imperial China)
2. to banish or exile
3. (of immortals) to banish from Heaven
4. to censure
5. to blame

Other readings

谪 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• zhévariant of {谪|zhé}

Words starting with 谪

• 谪仙zhé xiāna genius (literally, an immortal who has been banished from heaven to live on earth), an…
• 谪居zhé jū(of officials in imperial China) to live in banishment
• 谪戍zhé shùin exile as penal servitude

Words containing 谪

• 指谪zhǐ zhéto criticize
• 贬谪biǎn zhéto banish from the court; to relegate

Sounds the same

Read zhé, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 哲wise; a sage
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• 辙rut; track of a wheel (Taiwan pr. chè); (colloquial) the direction of traffic…
• 乙turning stroke (in Chinese characters), aka 折
• 辄then; at once; always
• 蛰to hibernate
• 摺document folded in accordion form; to fold
• 蜇jellyfish
• 磔old term for the right-falling stroke in Chinese characters…
• 晢bright
• 悊to revere; to respect; variant of 哲
• 乇"blade of grass" component in Chinese characters

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhé correctly.
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